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30 and destructive to government, beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers, and magistrates in America.

The leaders of the people cause them to err.

Written for a general service, by him that truly and sincerely desires the present and eternal welfare and happiness of all mankind, all the world over, of all colours, and nations, as his own soul"

This work contains many interesting facts, and some powerful appeals to the judgment and feelings. In some parts, however, it manifests the same intolerance of the mistakes of others, which characterises the other productions of the author on the subject of slavery, and which, at the time of this publication, was calculated, by the obstinacy, which it was likely to excite, rather to confirm than remove the error of some of those to whom it was addressed. He distributed